Evelyn Boakye, the victim in the Marwako assault case says her heart is full of joy following the nine months jail term handed to her former Lebanese boss, Jihad Chaaban, who dipped her face in grinded pepper.
According to Evelyn, she’s excited seeing Jihad serve his time in prison as she feared her attacker would have been deported without being punished for the inhumane treatment meted out to her.
The Abeka District Court on Wednesday sentenced the Lebanese supervisor at the Abelemkpe branch of Marwako restaurant, Jihad Chaaban to nine months imprisonment for assaulting her.
The Judge, Victoria Afua Ghansah in her judgment said the prosecution had proven beyond every reasonable doubt that the accused committed the offences.
She however discharged and acquitted Chaaban on the charge of offensive conduct since prosecution could not convince her enough.
Jihad made the headlines after he was reported in February to have shoved the victim, Evelyn into grinded pepper. He accused Evelyn of fidgeting with a blender and working too slowly.
Chaaban was charged and convicted for offensive conduct for calling the victim a prostitute and intentionally and unlawfully causing harm and assault.
But speaking to Kasapa News Evelyn Boakye expressed gratitude to God for avenging the wrong done her.
” I went in for justice from the beginning of the case and justice has to be served. If the nine months jail sentence is what is justice for Jihad Chaaban to pay for what he did to me, then glory be to the Almighty God.”
Evelyn, also thanked the Ministries of Gender, Women and Social Protection, Employment and Labour Relations and the media for their massive support from day one of the incident till its final determination.
Meanwhile, Lawyer for Jihad Chaaban says he is going to file for an appeal against the nine-month jail term.
The lawyer, Julio De Medeiros has said his side disagrees with the judgment and was going to immediately start working on the appeal process.
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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Arabs I personally has always seen them as surplus human beings on the planet earth, yet they see themselves as better than anybody. I wonder which of the planet's will accept these kind of people if not for the fact that earth did them a favour by allowing them here in our midst. They are very wicked and naive of everything If it was a Ghanaian who did that in Arab country...he would have been hanged publicly
only God knows what would have happened if a Ghanaian had done that in their country, they would have sentenced that Ghanaian to a life imprisonment but he just get 9months and he got a lawyer to fight for appeal. This lawyer has been given cash so want to try his best and let this guy go free but it wont work cos he will be deported after serving his 9months so that his fellow arabs wil learn to respect our law and treat our people fairly.
my dear lawyer, forget abt the appeal, nine months self is too small. i am not happy with the nine months term tweaaaa. my dear he has to take care of your medicals expenses too oo. all of us are working with these Arabs in Ghana here and they dont treat us well at all. lady congrats u have succeed putting that man in his place all Arabs in Ghana will take note.i just send the news paper for today to my boss to read. mani agye k3k3